Cisco Optical Transceiver Reliability Manager 

United States, Massachusetts 

552153868

The application window is expected to close on 09/30/2025.

The job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

We seek an accomplished leader who will establish a culture of reliability excellence and motivate organizational change to deliver outstanding product reliability.

• Partner with multi-functional teams to drive product quality and reliability of Optical components to meet customer expectations.
• Develop capabilities and an ecosystem to complete product qualification of Optics components.
• Manage comprehensive reliability programs, including ORM and ORT, for optical transceivers focusing on performance under varied operational and environmental conditions.
• Lead the assessment of the reliability of novel and advanced Optics and Package technologies including predictive modeling for product life expectancy.
• Establish and maintain reliability testing methodologies, procedures, and metrics.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards such as Telcordia GR-468, JEDEC, and other optical communication standards.
• Partner with Product Development to deliver Advanced Networking Optics that set the bar for best-in-class reliability.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, materials science, computer or optical engineering or related field with 12 + years of optical and semiconductor component reliability or Master's degree with 8 + years of experience.
• Experience in new product development in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with executing product qualifications to Telcordia, JEDEC, and Military Standards.
• Experience with failure and root cause analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• You are a highly organized, reliability professional with a technical background in Optical Transceivers, Optical Active and Passive Components, Semiconductor IC Engineering, and relevant skills.
• Experience managing teams including providing coaching and mentorship on job performance and career development and adept at developing and nurturing a global, diverse, and inclusive team environment.
• Experience with Coherent Optical Communications Technology and Silicon Photonics.
• Ability to define and meet quality processes and metrics that ensure customer satisfaction while supporting product cost and delivery.
• An effective cross-functional communicator who values partnership and collaboration and has experience addressing executive-level staff - both internal and customer-facing
• Thrive under uncertainty and demonstrate the ability to handle sensitive situations in an effective and constructive manner.